Pre-birthday festivities
Friday, October 21st, 2005Tomorrow is my birthday. I’ll be 25 years old.
Huh. I don’t feel 25 years old. Maybe that’ll come tomorrow.
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Yesterday, Seth went shopping for my birthday presents. When I got home from work, they were sitting there on the couch, in all their wrapped glory. Right away, he was after me to open them up right away. I told him no, since my birthday isn’t until Saturday. Well, he wasn’t too thrilled with the idea (he’s not so good with the anticipation bit - I suspect he’s one of those men who do all their Christmas shopping on the 24th, only not because he’s lazy but because if he bought them any earlier, he’d kill himself trying to keep them a secret), and he continued hounding me. Then, he started talking about how he almost got me this one other big thing instead of the 4 things he did get me, and if I really wanted to, we could take all the others back and get that one big thing instead? I teased him about trying to make me pick door number three instead of door number one - and, besides, he’d just told me it was a good thing he hadn’t gotten me the big thing because I would have loved it but I would have been mad at him for spending too much money. (Are you still with me so far? Okay, good.)
Anyway, I finally pointed out that there were three packages (he’d wrapped two together), and it two days until my birthday, so I could open one then, one the next day (today), and the last on on Saturday. This was seen as a good plan (I agree, really - we should all stretch out our birthdays as long as we can!), and he went and got me one of the packages. He figured I already knew what it was, but, no. See, I sort of wanted to be surprised, so I wasn’t thinking too hard about what was inside all the wrapping paper.
I opened it up, and it was two CDs - The Original Broadway Cast recording of Avenue Q (which I’ve wanted for ages) and the latest Barenaked Ladies album (actually sort of a double, as it includes a DVD with the whole album in 5.1 Surround Sound (!) and video clips of 11 of the songs in the Acoustic Studio Session). Fun stuff, eh?
He also ended up convincing me to open up one more present, as he wasn’t sure if I would like it, and that way, he explained, if I didn’t like it, we could take it back to Joplin then, since we were already going to Joplin for dinner. It was a beautiful round decorative mirror, and all around the mirror was a black glassy mosaic frame thingie. Maybe I’ll figure out a way to take a good picture of it. Clearly, we didn’t take it back.
Interestingly enough, he went ahead and told me what the big thing was, since it was no longer an option - Target had had one Nano left in stock (white, 2GB), and he was thisclose to getting it. He was right though - I probably would have been mad at him for spending the money (especially considering how close we are to closing on the house!) despite the ultra cool factor of the Nano. Anyway, back to the story at hand.
After all the present opening, we headed to Joplin for dinner at the newly-opened Johnny Carino’s. He had the Chicken Picatta, while I chose the Cheese Ravioli. It was good, although our waitress was pretty obviously new to the job - it’s not that she forgot stuff, but that she just didn’t quite know when to shut up and leave us alone. Either way, it was yummy stuff.
We listened to the Avenue Q soundtrack on the way there and back, and wow, it is such a good one! We laughed our butts of at so many of the songs - Seth was laughing so hard during "Schadenfreude" that he almost had to pull over! My favorites, though, are "Everyone’s A Little Bit Racist" and "The Internet is for Porn." I think that I’ll post these here for you as my own grown-up version of bringing treats to school for my birthday. Enjoy!